Is Healthy Travel Easy?

What do you think?

For me I just experienced another incident where travel ended up being more difficult because I did not make an attempt to bring along healthy snacks prior to departing. I thought I was saving myself some effort and going for easy travel. But the result of that decision was being faced with bad and even worse choices for food and drinks.

Why did I decide to make the trip easy or what I thought was going to be easy? Well, quite simply, it’s a hassle to have to bring along another bag which is what I would have needed to do to bring food. Even with my spinner luggage, another bag means something else has to be carted or slung over the shoulder. I already had a small carryon, my spinner and my laptop case. I really didn’t want a 4th bag which meant checking in at least two so on this trip, no healthy food came along.

But this decision actually made the whole trip more difficult. Upon arrival in Dallas, I used a shuttle service to take me from the airport to my hotel downtown so I was not the master of my ability to stop at a grocery store and buy food. The hotel had a restaurant but it was expensive, so I ended up buying snacks and drinks from the hotel gift shop part of the time that were so far from healthy you would laugh. (Can you spell PRINGLES?) Not a single orange or apple in sight.

And my options last night trying to get home from Dallas were not much better. It can be particularly difficult to find healthy food once you go through security but each airport is different. What I found last night after security at DFW was candy, salted nuts and chips, dried fruits with sulfites and sugar, sugared soft drinks and diet soft drinks with artificial sweetners and bottled water.

I could find no fresh fruit or yogurt other than frozen yogurt because I was running late and didn’t have time to investigate beyond my gate. There actually is healthier food at DFW, just not where I was. So that easy travel was not and my energy throughout the trip suffered for it. Maybe I will bring another bag next time . . .

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